Don't Be A D*ck On Super Bowl Sunday

Don't Be A Jerk On Super Bowl Sunday

If you’re planning on buying an expensive flat-screen TV for the Super Bowl, then returning it afterward, we have one thing to say to you: Don’t be a dick. Yeah, you may look cool in front of your friends for a day with a 50” HDTV taking up the entire wall of your condo, but is that really worth the costs?

Thankfully, we narrowly averted a global economic meltdown last year. While the United States has gone through a Great Depression before, it’s doubtful we’ll survive another. That’s because people pulled together during that time to get through. They thought of the greater good. Today, too many of us are only focused on our own short-term happiness.

are you that cheap?

Buying and returning a TV doesn’t cost you anything, but the store loses money. It needs to pay the employees that take the time to sell you the TV and return it. That TV can no longer be sold as new. Retail drives our economy. The more retailers hurt, the more we'll all feel it.

While your bank account doesn’t change, buying a TV takes time to research, purchase, set up, break down, and return. That can take a good three days, all tallied. In reality, it doesn’t cost you anything if you don’t view your time as worth anything. Time is money and you should be using it for more important things rather than waiting in the customer service line at Best Buy.

Go ahead and have your Super Bowl party, but use all of that time you would have spent on the TV to make food, set up a fun football pool and organize your place to its optimum football feng shui potential.

you're compensating

Your friends may be impressed on Super Bowl Sunday, but what happens the next time they come over and see your old crappy set? If you explain your plan, however, it’s going to make you seem like a loser who thinks way too much about material things. That makes you the Heidi Montag of football fans. Dude, come on.

That doesn’t even take into account what women will think. Females already have a difficult time wrapping their heads around males’ need to compensate for dick size with a large flat screen. If they find out you spent all of that time and energy just to use a TV for one day, they’re going to think you’re insane.

dude, just enjoy the game

A true football fan doesn’t need superficial technology to enjoy the biggest game of the year. It may enhance the game, but the TV’s gimmicks and features will distract you. We’re men and can’t help but play with new toys. You’ll be trying to brighten the picture and accidentally change the channel during Manning’s 50-yard touchdown pass.

If you feel truly insecure about your TV, take the thought and energy out of it and rent one. For a couple hundred bucks, an electronics rental place will often deliver and set it up for you. Just don’t get suckered into one of those rent-to-own deals. Those are for fool-hearted suckers who live in trailers.